Local women featured on 'Breaking Boston' reality series

Three South Shore women are among the cast on the new unscripted series “Breaking Boston,” premiering at 10 p.m. Thursday, March 13, on the A&E Network.

Dana BarbutoThe Patriot Ledger

Three South Shore women are among the cast on the new unscripted series “Breaking Boston,” premiering at 10 p.m. Thursday, March 13, on the A&E Network. The show, from executive producer Mark Wahlberg, follows a group of “working class women coming of age with the odds stacked against them,” according to a press release. Featured on the show are Courtney DeVoy, 25 of Weymouth; Noelle Trudeau, 26, and Valerie LaPaglia, 22, both of Braintree. In 2010, Trudeau appeared on the MTV show “Is She Really Going Out with Him?” – a reality series that showcased the love lives of beautiful women who date jerks. In “Breaking Boston,” she’s shown trying to move on with her life after the tragic loss of her brother in car accident. DeVoy is a single mother juggling her daughter, job and future. Her dream is to get into beauty school. A 2008 graduate of Braintree High, LaPaglia, served jail time for drunken driving and is trying to attend UMass-Boston to change her life. “These are real women telling their original stories of trying to break out of what’s expected of them,” said Wahlberg. “The odds are difficult, but I believe they can make it.”